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Hasan Found Guilty in Fort Hood Shooting

A jury found Maj. Nidal Hasan guilty of multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in connection with a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 that killed 13 people. Microsoft said longtime CEO Steve Ballmer has decided to retire within 12 months.

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... the ... major dollar sign found guilty on multiple counts of murder in one of the left in the worst acts of soldier on soldier violence in U S military ... history ... it is Friday August twenty third welcome to the news of mine Paul beanie in for Simon Constable ... joining me now is Wall Street Journal's Houston deputy bureau chief until the steel ... and our Alan Ashby Jones they're a lot to ask an expert on the death penalty ... by one adding a puppy is the first non government Dell on the Guild get was the de tails will just tells what happened ... well you know the story is long in coming out this ... mass shooting occurred in two thousand I ... and what happened is it ... time to get to a trial or military court martial ... once it did ... it is fairly quickly and the jury found fairly quickly that UPS email us on our recent interest was was guilty of ... murder ... thirteen people were killed in this next shooting more than thirty others wounded and ... they they basically came back in ... he was guilty of all adults ... he he he he acted on is all that happened on defense ... he didn't contest the charges right ... yet mean this is an unusual seating for for Number reasons but one of them was ... a ... he acted as his own lawyer and he ... basically been going on and that's when he also didn't put on a closing argument saying the prosecution ... go through this ... very long laborious said ... that incident witnesses that they ... and then it came time for us on the present is and that's it basically spent literally ... Spencer it's ... drizzling works ... so it was fairly abrupt end to to the ... court martial ... so the ... for yesterday ... today we had this to ... be on this and think what is the next stage for this ... it's a good question and stages and there is a sentencing phase where they decide especially whether ... he should ... get life in prison or ... death ... and the senses are pretty unusual in military I believe that the last ... actual ... execution carried out in Austria was annexed sixteen or so it's pretty unusual is that ... the ... time and we wanna bring you on this for me going it's unusual that the county but ... this is extremely violent peace he offered no defense if the fee it charges ... is that they're helping out from the NFL is very much an option in Miguel's right we haven't had one in the military since nineteen sixty one effect last time it happened ... by execution for them by hanging in the military now they'll move to a of a lethal injection procedure but it shows you ... on your it just doesn't happen that often so will get to that space now what happens is ... the prosecution will make its case to a jury of thirteen ... aam in the army soldiers essentially who will make a ruling on the death penalty when it's thing thing about this is that the president ... passed away and and and signs that the death penalty is ... is in fact appropriate sold out in a so-called tool and played with ... the president that would happen before the sentencing comes in or is that after you get a good question I don't know the answer to this happen so so rarely last week of President Eisenhower on the scientists came into the open Keynes ... but Pres Obama will have to get involved at some point here I would assume that if ... the of the military is behind this in the present would would would sign off on this well ... sold to stop the wincing while now ... if he is sentenced to death and this is ... this is ... a long weekend is this was taken to enough he defend themself now site ... how he's going to appeal the sentence yet it's it's a little bit unclear but I think this could move fairly quickly and if he gets the death penalty ... aam you know he could be could tie this up with more appeals absolutely does could go up to the U S Supreme Court it some point whether or not held to that I don't know he has said I think I think he said earlier that he ... and his team he when he was opposed the idea of martyrdom write to me ... if he had been killed aam instead of just paralyze ... of by the capture of that would've been okay with the silky ... if he gets the death penalty he might not sound who knows he might not really into what might or might it get to know Arike at the McGill ... one thing people appreciate ... loss to Journal reported today that the US is refining military options for possible strikes in Syria ... amid allegations the government killed over a thousand civilians of chemical weapons ... so yesterday in the front page of the Journal ... are we a turning point in the Syrian still wore for will world leaders continue to watch in the distance joining me now is Dr David Pollock Kaufman Fellow at the Washington Institute for near East policy ... I've got to look things are coming on today ... Mr. ... do you think that this latest incident this cannot this alleging chemical attack ... do you think that this is sort of galvanizing event that will get four powers involved in Syria ... well I'd I don't see that happening just yet ... unfortunately in my own view ... and there it has created ... a stir ... new ... and ... there have been some statements from ... various governments the including the U S government that this ... changes things that are requires urgent attention and so on but ... there still isn't ... as I see it a definite plan ... to do anything ... serious about this new atrocity ... in Syria which ... I would say ... certainly was committed by the Syrian government the overwhelming ... evidence points in that direction ... um I think ... the ... the first step is supposed to be further investigation and then this can be more discussion ... but what I see the U S government doing at the same time that were talking about this ... it is continuing to try and somehow worked with the Russian government ... on a plan to ... settle the Syrian civil war ... politically ... conference in Geneva or something like that ... right here and ... the Russian government is continuing to run interference for us as regime ... in Damascus even in the face of this latest ... massacre ... and so I think there were still at a point though not quite having come to decision how to proceed ... where do you think the all the sort of talk about the Obama administration hiking its options in here in case they wanted to do something militarily politically as as I aam as a punishment for the failed attacks ... do you think I mean that's that's a little bit of saber rattling quotable warning of the hoping that aside notices ... you know it may be that people are hoping for that ... this isn't the first time that we've talked about that ... and ah so that is ... clearly not paying any attention whatsoever in fact he just ... made a speech today in which he repeated the Fed did ... the authorities concerned any ... measures any measures that role against what he calls terrorists in other words ... the opposition to him ... among his own population ... any measures the dollar legitimate and justified and that he will continue ... to use them ... so ... it's ... very clear to me and I think it should be clear to everyone ... by this time that the Fed doesn't pay any attention to words ... he only pays attention ... when people actually back up their words with some real tough actions ... I guess that's a really stunning if ... the Obama administration decided to go to a military option to do something to actually take on more direct and of involvement in this whole thing ... and what could they really do short of of ... of GOP engagement ... with Assad would you respond to its unlimited bombings we respond to no fly zones ... we had ... in the Obama nation and missed ration took that step out deep with a half ago when ... in in my opinion ... and I've discussed this ... in some depth with ... the ... military ... experts and officers ... I think there's a range of options ... then ... military intervention for small would not necessarily have to be directed could take the form of ... actually ... fulfilling our promises to support the Syrian opposition with the military means that they need to defend themselves ... even against such her riffic ... attacks ... with chemical weapons ... secondly if we do ... decided ... to take a direct military intervention option ... it ... could be limited ... it could take the form of ... a stand off weapons ... not even in in in ... Curran ... into Syrian airspace ... um that would target ... very selectively ... chemical weapons ... aam ... the perpetrators ... of this chemical weapons attack or the facilities that they need in order to ... undertake the second attack now the downside of that ... it seems to me ... is ... that ... the argument that attacking chemical weapons sites could in of itself produce ... a chemical weapons incident ... that could kill ... or injure ... a nuisance in the area but ... I'd I think that there are ways technical ways to minimize that risk ... and if that risk cannot be minimize them there plenty of other military targets that would make a suitable ... response ... ok and I will what I would have one more thing which is that we don't need to do this all by ourselves and infect other countries as in Libya ... are are lining up to volunteer ... to work with us on a response France and Britain and Turkey and Arab governments ... so we would be in very good company if we decided to finally do something serious to stop us that it has tracked ... Arike Dr David Pollack of the Washington Institute thank you for your time appreciate it ... my pleasure ... Steve Palmer Hara Micra soft is coming to an end ... was in line to take the C suite net long time but she ... packs up and goes all ... Wall Street Journal As a sore left in the year-ago period where those with me is ... a professor at the inner ... Pursell apprentice only dealer and Grandpa are scaling on a bomber news euro in fourteen years ... and billion dollars on a very up ... on let's go to the short list of who might replace them and there's quite a few game on the company says they're looking both inside and externally which is a pretty big and mentioned that they were really ready for this changes the point that if you look inside the company ... when they did this recently organization didn't really ... set a clear number two the master bomb are so ... you're looking at a group of people it can be and one of the most interesting is Kevin Turner email The ... Top chief operating officer and now ... he's been a Mike SUP like eight years ... he runs probably half of the hundred thousand people to zero in sales and marketing in their internal I see ... aam one thing is he's doesn't have a technology background he actually came from Walmart use their twenty years ... time and he's sort of an execution Pentagon ... art and the company entered a new high tech guy and he is ready for them I drank but ... and he was a CEO at Sam's Club city has Anfac around for another interesting person is ... Julie Larson Green is another senior executive and in the recent reorganization she actually got ... a fair amount of extra responsibility she's now in charge of the Xbox game console and the slate tablet which MC hasn't done very well ... aam ... she's move at relatively high through the ranks quickly she joined in twenty years ago which is basically programmers to work on on this and then she helped launch Windows seven and grew that this that debacle ... aam but ... since Mr. Barbara's said that devices and software is their future and she's been put ... in charge of some of biggest devices that says it has enjoyed Ayatollah Terry Myerson ... on he's even been outside can I think he ... basically just kept one charge of Windows engineering um and previously here and there from software which obviously hasn't done for AWOL in the marketplace and despite their partnerships with Nokia and he's very entities like forty ... the a aam ... another ... yet another internal person ... Ivan cinching is Tony Bates he's also former CEO he's to run sky and when they bought when Mike SUP wants that he ... joined the company and he's been given additional responsibilities as well ... aam but before that he resents this go for like fourteen years or something and helps ... you manipulating energy and back reading a builder for some of their most important switching Tronox ... and I he's pretty highly regarded so so he has a lot of its peers outside the company exactly and looking outside the company also right that's right for some the names outside I mean that they haven't though the company hasn't said obviously been that they're all kinds of people that would certainly be interested I think in the job one name that's come up a lot today it's ... Sunday Jiang who was the former Maroons CEO ... aam and before that use at Qualcomm and he ... has engineering background I he's led a restructuring of the fairly large company money joined Motorola in Catholic forty thousand employees ... he successfully ... really reorganize that cut a lot of jobs ... got ... them in the smartphone game and then sold it to do so ... and at the moment he is not working anymore so that that's a twenty minus twenty cap give you any guess on a different me yes which is the kick t think that go inside or outside ... I think they are not there yet some YouTube and yet we don't know I think they will look at Sears the external and commanding if they had um people in mind internally the wooden steps untenable horse race in the last reorganization where they would apply ... to people level above everybody else and give them six months or years to prove themselves ... so I can do this in a city where they go I mean it's the it's a huge job and not even an envious one for some people that ... are I'm so thankful for it ... seventh Generation Chevy Corvette is that all been picked ... up in the rodeo state so says our Rumble Seat columnist Dan Neil joins us now from Raleigh North Carolina ... I can he drove the court that the new cord that he is the big question the use of the question ... of what you think of the new tail lights ... a a a a a a ... this is certainly the sector Trainspotting that we can expect from work ... aficionados and anymore over ... the quarter a year of which there are regions but you know what I eat grass is ... is ... is the Corvette somehow miraculously cool again you know ... this car has been rushed to the owners of the stars that in Serie a title this year ... upwardly mobile accountants and Dennis Chaves internet ... and the whole thing but what does when he sees there seems to be a generational shift somewhere on ... the car ended up on ... Tuesday seriously it's the credits rolled it with real sports car buyers ... and that's where I think this car ... oh and then people ... yes it's that Dow high usual but yet it can use all I would show some video of it ... he looks pretty high that Italian ... high and dry and the like ... well the cars it is different from the previous generation ... the meeting they have the matter ... this is C Sam and I restructured to really a lot tougher lots to the scene he bolted together and is probably a quarterback because as ... Mr. s ... third plastic or heartened by the rules for the most part and they have ... their video residences ... audience of prominent Ferrari or Porsche doesn't and this is a metal body ... so ... far ... and that is so it is the isthe is that it's ... they're gonna durability to try to see ads on its track radius of course ... lah ... it is awful ... it may not be as tough as durable out of the box as a portion of the disease or go through ... pretty hard ... for ... you on the road feels ... right they are really ... there ... it does ... do you think that ... the redesign is enough to ... be designed to shed his reputation ... well yet ... well this is the ... market if they had a baby pool with twenty thousand in the quarter ... with a long reputationally relay ... for with slim that he gets on with square wheels and core ... businesses By ... whatever it ... is again reaching a younger smarter hipper they gotta do ... there are huge in this world class supercar haha ... eight you were just sort of finding out of ... an ... exaggeration but ... I'm ... the car's underappreciated ... and the unit is that I ... know the thing is to get out Can the market and we get ... them kidding we need on that note